Definitions for feist

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Spelling: [fahyst]
IPA: /faɪst/

Feist is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in feist (efist).

Definitions for feist

noun

  1. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.

verb (used without object)

  1. South Midland U.S. to prance or strut about:

Origin of feist

1760-70; compare (from 16th cent.) fisting hound, fisting cur, as contemptuous epithets for any kind of dog (present participle of fist to break wind, late Middle English; compare Old English

Examples for feist

feist compares it with English and considers it a “mixed language” almost from the start, and many facts seem to favor this view.

feist pauses and smiles, convinced that he has convinced me.

feist cover “Limit to Your Love” [below] manages to improve on the original, and is one of the best songs of the year.

Before feist can reply, his political director, Mark Preston, looks up from his BlackBerry.

feist is familiar, of course, with the objections that have been leveled against the 2012 debates lately.

Mon frre Annemond Coct, chevalier, au partir du pays me feist son heritier.

Word Value for feist
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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